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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m on the side of the attackers on this one. BattleEye is trash.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How long until a botnet exploits one of these root kits and puts millions of high-end GPUs to work for whatever. Or a troll just fries everyone's hardware for the lawls.

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or they push a bug by accident that gets the machine into a bootloop? On the bright side hospital and airline computers don't have GTA installed on them so the impact would be reduced to personal computers.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

On the bright side hospital and airline computers don’t have GTA installed on them

Are you sure?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Good shit. Privacy and Security cannot be a casualty of cheat prevention.